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Disapointed by XGS 116 for home

Jeff Dufey

I tested a VM with XG home Edition and I was pretty happy with it that I decided to order a physical firewall to get a real protection instead of virtual.

I ordered a XGS 116 and I got really disapointed by the noize of the device. I plug the device in the ground floor and I can hear the high frequences fan noise even in my living room at the first floor. I get surprise when I upgraded to the latest firmware (19OS) that I still got 3 free update and after  that I must order support which is a good price.I also realized that I have no licenses for IPS and this costs like 600.- per year.

I feel like this firewall was way to big for home usage and I will asks for a refund.

I checked on the web and it looks like the XGS 87 also have a lot of big noise feedback regarding the size of the box. Is it the same regarding the licenses as additional?

Is there a way to have a fanless device with XG Home Edition instead of having to sell my car just to have a good performant firewall?



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  • 0 in reply to LuCar Toni

    That way he can use any of the newer devices which have the latest i225/i226 NICs and faster CPUs?

  • 0 in reply to alan weir

    Likely yes. Because if the hypervisor supports your hardware, which they likely do, they can visualizer the hardware for there Host system.

    You can potentially loose some performance, but overall, it is a better approach to most of those integrations. But it will increase the complexity in your system, so it could be an extra layer of configuration. 

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  • 0 in reply to LuCar Toni

    Sophos provides a quick tutorial on installing the XG in KVM and ESXi, but not Proxmox. Since proxmox is so popular these days it would be nice if there was an official guide for it too. It's kind of odd that there is no guide from Sophos.

  • 0 in reply to LuCar Toni

    I did test the Sophos Home Edition on a ESXi hypervisor.

    The annoying thing is that you need to leak your WAN into your LAN where your hypervisor is plugged which is not a very good practice.

    And also when you want to upgrade your hypervisor, you need to shut down all VMs so you are loosing all your routing and cannot access between vlan.

    I feel that having a dedicated ESX doing router looks more costly than having a small device dedicated hardware.

  • 0 in reply to Jeff Dufey

    Hi,

    why is your wan on your lan, don’t you have enough interfaces to configure the wan port on its own Nic?
    ian

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  • 0 in reply to rfcat_vk

    Unfortunately not, my ESXi is a small Intel NUC with only 1 interface. It was the only way I found to test a firewall VM on my internal hypervisor.

    And I didn't wanted to buy some hardware just for a test.

  • 0 in reply to Jeff Dufey

    You could try adding a usb/nic which some of are supported by ESXI.

    Ian

    XG115W - v19.5.1 mr-1 - Home

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